The majority of recycling is done by people who separate the various types of waste. Now, a new recycling robot has been created that can tell the difference between paper and plastic. The robot is ...

Known as RoCycle, the device is being developed in a partnership between MIT and Yale University. Compatible with any third-party robotic arm, it's reportedly 85 percent accurate at differentiating ...

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new recycling robot that’s capable of automating the process ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Automating recycling seems like the smart thing to do when considering the incredible amount of waste we humans produce every year ...

The advance from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) includes a soft teflon hand that uses tactile sensors on its fingertips to detect an object’s size and stiffness. Said ...

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Automating recycling seems like the smart thing to do when considering the incredible amount of waste we humans produce every year. But robots can't easily tell materials apart just by looking at them ...